082: Neil Sattin Interview — Change your Thoughts, Change Your Life!

082: Neil Sattin Interview — Change your Thoughts, Change Your Life!

In this podcast, David and Fabrice feature David’s recent interview on the topic of “Change your Thoughts, Change Your Life!” The interview was first published on Neil Sattin’s highly regarded Relationship Alive Podcast. Although some of the material may be familiar, there’s much that’s new, and you will enjoy the chemistry between Neil and David as they discuss each of the ten cognitive distortions and raise many challenging questions, such as:

Is it really true that only our thoughts–and NOT external events–can change the way we feel?

If someone has the belief, “I’m unlovable,” isn’t that type of thought immutable? How could you possibly change or modify a thought that may be rooted in traumatic experiences and so deeply embedded in a patient’s psyche?

Should we try to change other people’s cognitive distortions, or just our own?

These episode will feature students and teachers in David’s Tuesday training group at Stanford, so you will get a taste of what an actual Tuesday group is like and see, first hand, how these methods work. They are unique to TEAM-CBT, and most have been created by Dr. Burns. We will also devote one episode to live Shame-Attacking Exercises, featuring the master of Shame Attacking, Dr. Joseph Towery, and we will all be out on the street doing Shame Attacking ourselves.

These episodes will be designed for therapists as well as your patients, and of course also for the general public.

You will LOVE this workshop because you will learn and practice techniques you can use in your clinical practice, but you will also have the chance to do your own personal work! And you will also have the unique opportunity to experience the tag-team teaching of David and Jill working together!

No, physical pain does not begin with a thought. However, pain with no organic cause often results from negative feelings, like depression, anxiety, or anger, as well as problems in your life you are avoiding instead of dealing with them. Confronting these issues, and working to reduce or eliminate negative feelings, can often result in profound reductions in pain, and sometimes a complete elimination of pain. Negative feelings can magnify pain tremendously. David

Thanks, negative thinking takes a toll on the body. How we walk, sit and move can be a reflection of our thoughts. Then the damage is done. I am determined to work at it and reverse the self-inflicted physical damage. Thanks for all your help: the bookks, podcasts and blog and responding here. Rodney